quelle surprise

quelle surprise

A French phrase that means "what a surprise." Often said sarcastically. A: "Ruth isn't coming tonight? Quelle surprise." B: "I know, she's ditched us at the last minute once again."
See also: surprise
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be bursting to (do something)
  • be bursting to do something
  • spill the works
  • catch (one) by surprise
  • monkey's uncle, I'll be/am a
  • (well,) I never!
  • (well) what do you know
  • Who would have thought it?
  • what do you know, (well)
  • What was (one) smoking?
References in periodicals archive
Which is how I find myself - quelle surprise! - parked in the corner of Sainsbury's car park (Witney branch, Oxfordshire, since you ask) with my grandson in the back (it's a looking after Rex day), a large diet soda, an iPad propped against the steering wheel and a scant half an hour before he wakes up and goes, "Wahhh, Nanny - unshackle me, now!" to pull something meaningful out of the column-creation bag.
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I was sat in a hotel two weeks ago (quelle surprise!) speaking to the GM.
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It's Kim Kardashian's fault, quelle surprise. Less than a month after her last naked selfie, the reality TV star has been at it again.
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Kardashian's fault, quelle surprise. Less than a month after naked selfie, the reality TV been at it again.
This Aussie rules when it comes to TV glamour
It's Kim Kardashian's fault, quelle surprise. Less than a month after her naked selfie, the reality TV star been at it again.
This Aussie rules when it comes to TV glamour
She insisted that she was "not expecting it in the least to cause a ripple", adding: "Quelle surprise." Incroyable, non?
What a gaffing stock... After Kenny's 'whinge' slur we look at other political bloopers
And quelle surprise, it is inspired by little 'Nori' as she is known.
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John Bruce emailed: "Dundee United want league reconstruction - quelle surprise.
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"I love TV drama Scandal and I can almost see the story falling into that kind of a show but, quelle surprise, if someone comes along and offers to turn it into a movie than I'll take it."
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